Quotes about Hell

“Hell is other people.”

“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”

“Hell is paved with good Samaritans.”

“Abandon all hope, you who enter here!”

“Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.”

“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”

“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.”

“If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.”

“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”

“One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.”

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”

“O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven of bliss.”

“To appreciate heaven well 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”

“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”

“If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.”

“The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.”

“Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.”

“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”

“Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''”

“When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.”

“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be.”

“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”

“The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.”

“The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

“Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”

“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”

“The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.”